Do you have a gym nemesis?

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  • Ant_M76
    Ant_M76 Posts: 534 Member
    The oldish geezer who goes to some of my spin classes... you know him - he's the one who kind of looks like a turtle. He needs to spend more effort working instead of looking round the room at other people. I swear I have never seen him break out into a sweat. Man up, quit glaring around at others and develop fast legs you turtle headed clown!!
  • whitneyann0
    whitneyann0 Posts: 327 Member
    Bump!
  • mruntidy
    mruntidy Posts: 1,015 Member
    Just realised there is one young guy not so much a nemesis who always gets on the elliptical in my vicinity and breaks wind all the time - i wouldn't mind so much if it weren't for the fact that it seems everyone then looks at me!
  • Cassi_Eats_Apples
    Cassi_Eats_Apples Posts: 235
    My gym nemesis is this one skinny little thing that always smirks and gives me dirty looks.
    Especially when I'm on the arc trainer, she always make it a point to be right beside me and she smirks about going way faster then I do on it.
    The thing is though, I set mine on the highest incline and 80 out of 100 resistance.
    Of course she can go faster on 0 incline with like 5 resistance.

    Check the cals burned, mine are always substantially higher just saying.

    LOL, you NEED to see this!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_yc6AKXLI

    lololololololol. I've seen that I love her. And yes it pretty much hits the nail on the head.
  • dazkeirle
    dazkeirle Posts: 25 Member
    You've touched on something here.

    Usually at the start of workout I'm calm, but as i work out and my test rises I start thinking everybody has some agenda with me.

    By the time I'm leaving I'm usually imagining kicking off with every single male in the gym.

    It gets out of control so I tend to just listen to music and ignore everyone, but I know it's happening.

    The best thing is, usually the ones I think are real bell ends who i couldn't imagine talking to, once a convo gets going by accident, usually turn out to be the nicest of nice guys.
  • lk227
    lk227 Posts: 28
    That's funny. I actually have NIKE shirts that I got on sale which say "run run run" and I never run at the gym. They're really comfy. I like to run outside at night time (less people watching me gasping for air..lol).
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    Not in the gym, at the dojo I have a fair number though. Nice thing about that is I get to punch them in the head from time to time.
  • chesterdogmine
    chesterdogmine Posts: 20 Member
    There's this one woman who is in her early 60s I'd say. At my gym there are fans around the cardio area and if nobody is using one, you can go grab one and plug it in in front or behind of your machine so you have the cool air blowing on you. It's really nice and I enjoy that they have that option.

    Anyways, this SAME lady has come up to my machine, given me a dirty look and then UNPLUGGED my fan and taken it away to her machine. This has happened at least 3 or 4 times.

    I'm not a confrontational person so I haven't said anything but if she does it again I might have to.


    Maybe we go to the same gym. An older lady at the gym I "attend" will unplug two or three big floor fans and position them on all sides of her when she gets on any cardio equipment and then turns them on high. You might have one of them that you are using but it makes no difference to her. She will unplug it and move it to her machine. I guess she likes to work out in hurricane winds. I just laugh and move on. People do some of the quirkiest things. It can be quite amusing to watch them while I am doing my cardio work.
  • smashatoms
    smashatoms Posts: 144 Member
    There's this one woman who is in her early 60s I'd say. At my gym there are fans around the cardio area and if nobody is using one, you can go grab one and plug it in in front or behind of your machine so you have the cool air blowing on you. It's really nice and I enjoy that they have that option.

    Anyways, this SAME lady has come up to my machine, given me a dirty look and then UNPLUGGED my fan and taken it away to her machine. This has happened at least 3 or 4 times.

    I'm not a confrontational person so I haven't said anything but if she does it again I might have to.

    HAAH OMG that is kind of hilarious, you should go unplug the fan from her!

    One time I was at machines with a friend and we put our waterbottles and ipods on the machine and went for a quick stretch on the mats, I looked over and noticed this dude bout 60 on my machine. We walked over, he had taken my ipod, waterbottle, and towel off the machine and placed it on the floor. My friend and I told him that we were using the machines and asked him if he could use a different one that was available. The gym wasn't very crowded, or else I would not put my stuff on the machine and just expect people to not get angered. So he refused to get off and we had to get the 18 year old kid at the desk to ask him to get off, and he did, whilst he yelled at my friend. I didn't want to have a gym enemy since I see this guy all the time so afterward I walked over to him and told him I appreciated him relocating and apologized for leaving my stuff on the machine while not using it. He touched my arm and thanked me for being so kind and apologized. So I guess the lesson is that people are revved up sometimes about life and a little understanding goes a long way.

    My NEW nemesis is this lady in her late 40s early 50s that told me the lesmills cxworx class was really really hard after she looked me up and down. I thought to myself "yeah I'm fat but I'm strong and athletic and motivated," it's cool cause I've hear her talking trash about other people like she is a 15 year old high school girl, while I'm focusing on ME and busting my *kitten* to get in shape. Hope shes still at the gym in 1 mo, 2 mo, 1 year, however long it takes for me to get to my goal weight and body fat so I can see the look on her face while I'm hot and she still has ugly "mom hair"

    Just to elaborate-- because JungleJD13 and I are twin sisters and go to the same gym...
    HER NAME IS BRENDA.
    She is awful. She stares me down when I'm on the cardio machines and walks by classes that I go to, and stops and stares through the open door!
    One day, after I had my trainer appointment, I was up at the guest services desk and she comes up behind the girl ringing me up and she starts asking how much it costs to have a trainer. She stood over my entire transaction, talking about how expensive it is, and said, "Well, I guess if you can AFFORD it..." basically being judgmental over my investment to take care of myself.
    She's completely inappropriate! Nothing like feeling completely violated while trying to get your sweat on!
  • SpunkBean
    SpunkBean Posts: 35 Member
    I have two!! Every Saturday I like to do a good spin workout, and the last four Saturdays, without fail, one of the girls comes into the spin room and plugs her iPod into the overhead system and cranks the volume up so high I can't hear my music with my headphone volume ALL THE WAY UP!! The weirdest thing is they are practicing zumba moves...not even using the spin bikes. They never seem to pay any attention to the fact that I am there. I always feel so disrespected!! I secretly hope that one day one of them trips and ends up pinned down by a bike ;)
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    There's a girl at my gym who told me when I first started going about a year ago that I was "too fat to squat." After the baby comes, I'm going to get back to it and show her that this fat girl really can squat quite well.
  • Darkskinned88
    Darkskinned88 Posts: 1,177 Member
    Theres one dude he always seems to go behind me and try to one up my weight amount, then theres another guy who's been watching from afar copying my workouts
  • Lady_Bane
    Lady_Bane Posts: 720 Member
    Yes. Luckily she is a friend of mine. She motivates me to work harder just by seeing her there. This is her (shes my friend on fb so i was able to show you guys what a badas$ she is :P):

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  • rgrange
    rgrange Posts: 236 Member
    This is funny, I just noticed I had a gym nemesis. I'm a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan and as such I have a number of articles of clothing relating to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For those who don't know, the Buccaneers are an NFL football team. I just moved to NYC and joined a new gym. Part of my workout attire includes a Buccaneers shirt. Whenever I go to the gym, I notice some middle aged guy staring at me. I was always a little put off by this until I saw him in a New Orleans Saints Shirt (the Saints are a rival of the Buccaneers). I now make it a point to try to out-lift him in every exercise in an attempt to assert my team's dominance over his team.
  • elprincipito
    elprincipito Posts: 1,200 Member
    Whenever this happens, i offer to spot them. Then they're never heard of again.
  • MissNations
    MissNations Posts: 513 Member
    When I'm at the gym, there's a woman, probably at least 10 years older then me, who STARES at me the entire time. If she's not staring directly at me, she's staring at my reflection in the glass. And it's not a nice stare either!

    At first I was like "no way b*tch, stop staring at me!" but now I'm like "wellllll I'm awesome and she just wants to be me"
    Then my head gets so big I can't fit out the door..

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :drinker:
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I don't go to a gym now, but when I did, I kind of did. I never spoke to her, but she was one of the only women at my gym to do weights, and she was gorgeous. I nicknamed her "Prom Queen," because her hair was always a perfect cascade of big bouncy curls.

    My hair on a good day, looks like a cross between Cosmo Kramer, Rosanne Rosanna Danna and Red Foo of LMFAO.

    Yes. I was jealous. I could understand little bunnies who never worked up a sweat always looking perfect, but this girl kicked *kitten*. And still looked perfect.

    But since I wasn't quite petty enough to pull her hair to see if it was attached, or swap her shampoo with Nair, the least I could do was make sure I lifted heavier weights than she did. "Ha... she was doing 250 on the leg press? I'll do 260! And go deeper!"

    I should really find her and thank her. :laugh:
  • JLand918
    JLand918 Posts: 156
    When I first read the title I thought it was targeted at exercise machine etc that you just hated to use...not a person only people that bother me are machine hogs and people who work out in non proper attire....as far as what machine is my nemesis the eliptical I know it does great for burning calories etc but it is so damn uncomfortable to use for me.
  • Rhia55
    Rhia55 Posts: 247
    All this makes me glad I can't afford a gym membership and I just exercise in the privacy of my own home :tongue:
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    My nemesis would be the credit card. I can't get one and no gym in the province will accept payment other than credit.
  • christine24t
    christine24t Posts: 6,063 Member
    There are a few people that just bug me for no reason. One lady is always there surrounded by like four men and I just wonder how she can have so many guys around her. There's this other girl who always works out in just a sports bra and it annoys me. Then there's a few weight-lifter guys that just gross me out...
  • ForTheSmile
    ForTheSmile Posts: 89 Member
    I wouldn't call her a nemesis but... I go to Curves and it's 99% older women, so the only other young person is my competition! She doesn't know that, though. :laugh: I'm just always trying to work as hard/harder than she is. :glasses:
  • Feisty_Red
    Feisty_Red Posts: 982 Member
    Early am lifting dude...if we get there at the same time it almost appears we power walk to the door so as can get the power rack first :) I have paid attention to his time and leave 5 mins earlier now.. Hehe
  • jensweighingin
    jensweighingin Posts: 168 Member
    These 2 women who horned in on my training session. The one would mimic all my moves, even after the trainer told her to put the ropes down. First time I was so confused, I didn't know what to do, the 2nd time I asked her to leave, I asked him to keep the interruptions down more than twice, asked her to pay for the current session since it was the _3rd_ time she did it, then cancelled my sessions. I'm much happier now.
  • RobfromLakewood
    RobfromLakewood Posts: 684
    There are these three guys in their early 20's who act like they are about 12 and I should know that this is the behavior level, I'm a middle school teacher. They annoy me because they are so damn loud.
  • nikinyx6
    nikinyx6 Posts: 772 Member
    My nemesis would be the credit card. I can't get one and no gym in the province will accept payment other than credit.

    I hated this!!! I thought I was awesome for making all of my big purchsaes with cash all this time...I was horribly wrong, I couldn't rent a car or get a hotel room either...


    Thank goodness I found Visa :)
  • beckyboop712
    beckyboop712 Posts: 383 Member
    I don't go to an actual gym anymore, just the one in my building when I need the treadmill or elliptical (which are my two machine nemeses...I would much rather just run outside). But I worked at a gym for 5 years and had MANY nemeses because I worked the front desk and got to tell people what they could and couldn't do and whether or not they had a valid membership (those were always fun fights). I got tons of dirty looks when my shift would end and I would workout myself. I think the worst one was this woman who, when the gym CLOSED for the night, would still go to the locker room to shower and cause me to stay for at least 20 extra minutes. Closed means get the hell out, not get off the machine at closing time and shower...gym employees have lives too and want to go home.
  • McBully4
    McBully4 Posts: 1,270 Member
    all the "Bro Squads"
  • avenathus
    avenathus Posts: 113 Member
    There used to be this increasingly huge clan of guys who would come to my gym around the same time I would go every morning. It started out this guy maybe around my age and a young kid, maybe his younger brother? Then it became a clan of the guy's friends. And I guess he was training them or something, but they would take up the whole gym just running around using all the machines, benches, leaving the weights out, being ridiculously loud, etc. Sometimes they would take up the whole studio room and close the door, which sucked because that's where they keep the foam rollers and mats, which I like to use when I cool down. He was definitely not a trainer with the gym, just a random dude with his friends. But a few weeks ago they disappeared and I haven't seen them since!
  • super_monty
    super_monty Posts: 419 Member
    I really need to tell someone to wash their hands after going the toilet, really he does it all the time no washing after number 1 or number 2.
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